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Making Waves: Paddle Steamer to Liner... Portuguese Coaster to Norwegian Tanker (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 780
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Making Waves: Paddle Steamer to Liner... Portuguese Coaster to Norwegian Tanker (Paperback)
Series: Maritime Heritage
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Loot Price R278
Discovery Miles 2 780
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This autobiography records the author's remarkably varied maritime
career. In 1939 he obtained his Scottish Higher Leaving Certificate
and, unable to obtain an apprenticeship, later passed his 2nd
Mate's Certificate, and sailed as a navigating officer. This gave
him the freedom to serve on a very large variety of vessels,
beginning aboard MacBraynes' paddle steamer PS Gondolier as a First
Class Pantry Boy until war was declared. In the following ten
years, including the entire Second World War, he served aboard a UK
coasting vessel converted for service as a Convoy Rescue Ship, a
Portuguese coaster flying the Panamanian flag, two liners, a
millionaire's steam yacht, four tankers (one of which was Norwegian
and one adapted to fuel the Royal Navy escort at sea) and nine
cargo ships (again one was Norwegian and one a weather-reporting
ship). While probably not unique, this assortment would certainly
be hard to equal, far less surpass. "Making Waves" thus provides a
wide-ranging account of what life in the Merchant Navy was really
like and the conditions in the countries visited, and contains many
anecdotes and a deal of humor.
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